Debhelper-generated postinst and prerm vs. manual one

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Except that this is horribly platform dependent.  I mean, it is not

There is absolutely nothing platform independent in saslauthd packaging, for
platform == linux distribution :-)

> I understand.  However, I think that is horribly broken.  If I run
> `/etc/init.d/saslauthd start` (note I did not use invoke-rc.d) and the
> daemon does not start, it is *wrong* to exit with a zero exit code.  I
> don't care what the policy or standard is, it is broken.

Yes, it is broken. But the fix ain't for etch.

> > We don't have a better choice right now.  We can fix this Debian-wide for
> > Etch+1.
> > 
> Yes, but will that Debian-wide fix be "standard" outside of Debian?  I'm

Yes, if it is done at the LSB level, which we can certainly attempt to do.

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